MKs Eli Cohen (Kulanu) and David Amsalem (Likud) are expected to submit a bill this week that would create an “extended weekend” once a month, giving Israelis a public holiday

Jerusalem firefighters extinguished a fire Saturday night after Molotov cocktails were thrown over the fence at Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus. The firebombs set thorns and brush alight on campus. Firefighters

Party leaders moved closer to an agreement paving the way for a unity government over the weekend, despite continued opposition from both coalition members and Zionist Union MKs. Zionist Union

Penning your own obituary is hardly a novelty. Many have used their final public statement to impart words of wisdom, leave a special message for their loved ones, or even

The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, has denied a request from a Muslim cadet admitted to the school in the fall to wear a hijab, a traditional Muslim

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday that he had little faith in the planned French Middle East peace summit. “This morning I met with the French Foreign Minister. I

In his weekly column in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, senior journalist Nahum Barnea commented on Deputy Chief of Staff General Yair Golan’s controversial comments comparing Nazi Germany to Israel. Barnea

Former London Mayor and ardent “Brexit” supporter Boris Johnson ratcheted up his rhetoric against the European Union over the weekend, comparing the central European government to efforts by Napoleon Bonaparte

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a strongly worded letter to French President Francois Hollande after France supported a UNESCO proposal denying the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, it was

A group of Republicans, including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is actively plotting to draft an independent presidential candidate who could keep Donald Trump from the White House, The Washington

Five young men face life behind bars after they were charged with counter-terrorism offences over a plan to sail to Indonesia to join jihadist groups in Syria, Australian police said

Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite terror group’s top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack. The Iran-backed movement has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Mustafa

There were hardly any Syrian migrants among the 800 people rescued off Sicily, contrary to earlier reports from Italy’s coastguard, the UN and the International Organization for Migration have confirmed. The coastguard had

A contest of anti-Israeli cartoons opened Saturday in the Iranian capital, with many entries deriding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government’s Middle East policies. The exhibition, totaling 150 entries from 50 countries,

A 36 year-old terrorist suspected of planning an attack on Israeli citizens was arrested Saturday, and  was also found in possession of police uniforms.  Border Police arrested the suspect at

Former President Bill Clinton delivered an impassioned defense of both his own foreign policy legacy and that of his wife, Hillary Clinton, who is currently the Democratic front runner for presidential

Israel barred the entry of a Turkish Airlines captain Friday night, after he was found to hold an Iranian passport, Channel 2 reports Saturday.  Ankara asked for special permission to allow the

The Islamic State jihadist group Saturday overran a government-controlled hospital in eastern Syria, killing 20 members of pro-regime forces and taking medical staff hostage, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human

Arab leaders in Yafo claim a gentrification of the city is a “dangerous” attempt to deliberately drive out Israeli Arabs.  Mohammed Abu Najm, former head of the Islamic Movement in

British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury, 27, faces backlash this weekend, after he posted a controversial anti-Semitic rant online.  “Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody

Hamas will “never forgive” the United Kingdom for enabling Israel’s existence, a spokesperson for the terror group said Saturday.  “Britain conquered the land of Palestine and was the first to

Jewish American millionaire Sheldon Adelson published an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday, in which he endorsed Donald Trump for president. If Trump isn’t elected president, warned Adelson, Americans

MK Mickey Rosenthal (Zionist Union) on Friday blasted his party chairman, MK Yitzhak Herzog, over what he called “Herzog’s desperate attempt to crawl into the government.” The comments, posted by

New York police have arrested four more boys in connection with allegedly setting fire to a Jewish school bus in Brooklyn, The Associated Press reported Friday. The New York Police

The White House said on Friday that no aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition were in the area of Damascus where Hezbollah’s top military commander, Mustafa Badr al-Din, was reportedly killed

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Zionist Union, spoke by phone on Friday about the possibility of the Zionist Union joining the coalition,

Members of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group have recently entered Gaza through tunnels from Egypt to undergo military training in the Hamas-ruled enclave, the Coordinator of Government Activities in

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday sent a message of condolences to Hezbollah following the death of its military commander, Mustafa Badr al-Din. In the message, quoted by

At least 820 Islamists have left Germany to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq, the German domestic security agency said Friday, voicing concerns about the rapid radicalization of minors after

A top Israeli official on Friday reiterated the country’s opposition to a French attempt to resurrect the peace process with the Palestinian Authority (PA), ahead of a visit by France’s foreign minister